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FACULTY ASSISTANCE: Susan - jeanne - Pat
UWP Criminal Justice Dept. - CSUDH Dept. of Sociology
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California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: February 4, 2007
Latest Update: February 4, 2007
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu
Instructions for Students Enrolled in Independent Study with jeanne and Pat in Spring 2007Independent Study Form for work with jeanne and Pat in Spring 2007
- Professor Hosokawa would like to hold a meeting with us, so that she can give you some guidance for preparing journals, which will serve for grading, if you are enrolled at CSUDH for this project. I would like to hear from you as to when a meeting time would be feasible. Meanwhile, the following instructions should make clear what Pat and I would like you to cover for our work together.
- jeanne and Pat meeting with some of staff at Challengers on Tuesday, February 4, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. You may join us if that is feasible for you. If not, I will try to announce a meeting place for next week.
Meanwhile, since you have all worked with me previously, I will assume that you know that you are expected to read the Dear Habermas Journal as it appears each week, and to use transform_dom for exchanges with me and Pat and Susan and each other.
I will be sharing with the staff the baggies we need to fill with materials for them to use with students. We could use help on getting those baggies ready. If you want to join us, just park behind the building at 5029 S. Vermont Ave. and stop at the information desk. They will direct you to us.
If you'll come and help with the staff, you could be a great help in providing extra hands and guidance for making the boxes and cards for Valentine's day and for Black History Month.
- Assignments to prepare for Valentine's Day and for Black History Month as first projects to share:
- Susan's Box Example of what a two inch square explosion box/card looks like. A four inch square box/card is easier to make because the inserted photos and images don't have to be so small.
- Instructions for Explosion Box/Card on Black History Includes some images.
- Instructions for Making Explosion Card for Photo or Messages from Scratch For those who are going to help with making boxes to different sizes and preparing materials for baggies. Not for use by someone who's never done this before. jeanne
- Instructions and Images for Making a Civics 101 Box/Card Includes some images.
- Instructions for "I Love Music!" Box/Card Includes lots of images.
- Decorating Suggestions for Inserts to Explosion Box/Card or WaterFall Card
- Assignments to prepare for further materials, such as Juvenile Justice and Wards of the State at 18:
- Start of instructions for waterfall card. With photos and images on water mining and privatization of water.
- The Godfather of Soul
- Juveniles Released as Wards of State at 18, story of one young woman from Los Angeles Times. Pictures for the explosion card or waterfall card are at the end of the article on the backup file, and on a separate link to images on the Los Angeles Times Site. Note that pictures and images are not available in the archives on most newspaper sites.
- Update on Our Community Activism Project with Dear Habermas for Spring 2007
We have begun our work with with Challengers Boys and Girls Club on Vermont, just south of USC. Our work will be divided into two phases: Arguments and Persuasion Techniques in Writing. This might help with message-building.
- Accompanying jeanne and Pat at Challengers, learning how to build team work with a local agency, without interfering with their agenda. Good administrative training.
- Work with jeanne and Pat on preparing and engaging others in art projects that are designed to stimulate and share discussions on local issues that matter to the residents and their children. This will include developing messages, including visual messages, that will register with kids of different ages. Those of you who want to work with your own or neighborhood children will want to focus on this section. I'll post specific tasks, and workshops when we can work at them here on the site. And I'll make a note that I've done that on transform_dom.
Instructions, readings, message-building, etc. will be given on line. For grades, we ask that you keep a journal of your learning and experiences for me to share with Dr. Hosokawa, who will turn in the grades for us.
Please check also the issues of Dear habermas I put up over Winter Break. And join our Yahoo discussion group, Write Free, for this project. Share what you are including in your journal as you put it together. I'll join you. Look forward to working with our children and families of all ages, as we learn to bring this learning to whole local communities, in cooperation with Challengers, and others who may wish to join us on Write Free. By the way, the title of our group means that writing will set us free, so it's important we learn to use it to that end.
Independent Study Form for work with jeanne and Pat in Spring 2007
Dr. Fumiko Hosokawa will sign for jeanne if jeanne isn't on campus.love and peace, jeanne and Pat
- Notes from January 6, 2007 meeting. We agreed to start work on art projects designed to stimulate discussion, story-telling, and writing. Met. Planned to work with staff. Met with staff and started to make plans for Valentine's Day and Black History Month.
